Part One: Imam Abdul Alim Musa: A Drug Lord turned Hezbollah supporter
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ISSUED BY: GCIS Communications Command Center
SOURCE: Northeast Intelligence Network
23February2011 7:17pmEST
GCIS INTELLIGENCE UPDATE: The difference with Muslim cleric Abdul Alim Musa is he is not from the Middle East, but rather an African-American named Clarence Reams with a long criminal past. Known by his criminal nom de guerre, ” Big Hank,” instead of what he calls his “slave name,” Musa was an international drug dealer and well-known criminal personality in Oakland, California who
converted to Islam while in the U.S. prison system. One source for this article has described Musa’s adoption of militant Islam as payback for the U.S. government putting him behind bars, an old adage “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.” He operates a Muslim group called Sabiqun that seeks to establish an Islamic world order and is an honored guest speaking at mosques in California and anti-Israel events at colleges like UC Irvine and UCLA.
Musa has gone on record publicly stating that “Jews are the enemy of humanity” and he openly supports both Hamas and Hezbollah, the Iranian terrorist proxies. Musa is a perfect example how the militant Islamists take people from the lower classes in our society and elevate them in stature to promote an internal “revolution” against the established state. Besides lecturing at other mosques in the US besides his own, Musa lectures at universities and colleges where he is a frequent guest of the Muslims Students Associations that operate at the behest of the Saudis.
While in Oakland during the 1960s, Musa associated with H. Rap Brown, who later also adopted a radical version of Islam and became known as Imam Jamil al-Amin. Al-Amin was imprisoned after murdering an American black police officer during a traffic stop in Atlanta.
“Big Hank” was later arrested for setting up a drug dealing heroin and currency smuggling operation in Colombia, and was also charged with assaulting a federal agent. Later, he fled to Algeria, where he hooked up with several self-exiled Black Panther leaders such as the late Eldridge Cleaver. He eventually returned to the United States and turned himself in. While in prison, “Big Hank” converted to Islam and adopted his Arabic Islamic name. He became a radical and supported Khomeini’s 1979 Iranian Islamic revolution, believing, or at least wanting to believe that Khomeini’s oppressive regime would lead to global Islamic dominance as Iran is striving for today. Once Khomeini’s regime was installed in power, Musa declared his unwavering support for the new Iranian dictator and his program of anti-Americanism. He has made several visits since the 1980’s to Iran proclaiming himself the representative of American Muslims and pledging undying support for the regime. He has managed to ally himself with anti-American Muslims, both Sunni and Shia since then and encouraged unity of purpose as being the road to success for Islam against the United States.
To promote this unity Abdul Musa uses anti-Semitism. The ADL has described his statements as a theme that “propagates a radical and anti-Semitic ideology.” He accuses Jews of being responsible for the slave trade prior to the 20th century to inflame African-American passions against the Jewish community in the same manner as Louis Farrakhan does with this Black Muslims group. Musa has demanded, “Who ran the slave trade…who funded it? You’ll study and you will find out: the Jews…It was the Jewish bankers…In Vienna, with pockets full of money, funding and insuring, that’s who did it…You can’t tell us about no Holocaust. Between the African Americans and the Native Americans, everybody else’s stuff was small potatoes.”
Historically inaccurate and designed to promote Jew-hatred, his speeches are heard even on “enlightened” U.S. college campuses. At the University of Washington under the invitation of the Black Students Commission where he proclaimed America was controlled by Jews and that “Yahuds [Jews] are the enemy of humanity.” In California he has spoken on campuses such as at UC Irvine, currently considered one of the most anti-Semitic campuses in the country by assorted civil rights organizations.
Challenged publicly on his anti-Semitism, Musa tries to claim he only opposes supporters of Israel or “Zionists” and not Jews in general, but he has drawn allusions in his sermons to “Yahuds” [Jews] even back to Mohammed’s days with them in Saudi Arabia and described them as conniving and responsible for usury.
Musa even challenged the FBI to arrest him once for funding Hamas, one of the terrorist groups funded by the Khomeini regime in Iran and similar to Hezbollah. Waving a check made out to Hamas at a demonstration in 1999, he dared the government to do something about it. The check however was never presented nor cashed. (read full report)
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